Dactylopius

noun

type genus of the Dactylopiidae

• Syn: ↑genus Dactylopius

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Dactylopiidae, ↑family Dactylopiidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑cochineal insect, ↑cochineal, ↑Dactylopius coccus

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\\-ˈlōpēəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from dactyl- + -pius (probably from Greek piōn fat); from the form of the body

: a genus of scales containing the cochineal insect and formerly those mealybugs that are now placed in Pseudococcus